The good news is our economic recovery from the pandemic is finally underway. The bad news is that it’s going a lot slower in blue states than red states- thanks to foolish big-government policies.
This is the inescapable conclusion revealed by the latest jobs and unemployment data.
“The unemployment rate in April nationwide was 6.1%, but this obscures giant variations in the states,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “With some exceptions, those run by Democrats such as California (8.3%) and New York (8.2%) continued to suffer significantly higher unemployment than those led by Republicans such as South Dakota (2.8%) and Montana (3.7%).” Read more…